GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
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| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| diva | prima donna |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
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| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |